Apparently Yates was the only one authorized to sign FISA warrants, and, while i personally don’t mind the government not being able to use those for awhile, it’s interesting that they’d give up that power.

You’re assuming they don’t arbitrarily pass a new EO granting all FISA warrants automatically. (Legal? No, but the TLA’s won’t care about such minor technicalities!) I expect to see that, or some version thereof, in the news before the end of the week.

The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has (allegedly) betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a(n allegedly) legal order (allegedly) designed to protect the citizens of the United States.

The Saturday Night Massacre refers to U.S. President Richard Nixon's orders to fire independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, which led to the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973, during the Watergate scandal. U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson had appointed Cox in May, 1973, after promising the House Judiciary Committee that he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the events surrounding the...